Posts Tagged: Debian Linux

If you’re using a Yubikey device with a Linux computer, you may have noticed that plugging in the device and pressing the button does emit a string of characters, however it fails to work with U2F websites when using, say, Google Chrome. In order to get it working, you’ll want to execute the following command… Read more »

Normally when I host my Node.js-based applications, I’ll SSH into my server, open up a screen or tmux session, run node ./server.js, detach, and call it a day. Of course, if you’re reading this article, you’re fully aware that this is a horrible solution and are looking for an alternative. One thing that is going to… Read more »

I recently read a copy of Debian 7: System Administration Best Practices, written by Rich Pinkall Pollei and published by Packt. Full disclosure: I’ve published a book through Packt, and they sent me a free copy of the book to do this review. Relevant background: Debian has been my preferred distribution for a few years,… Read more »

If you’d like to have the most recent version of Redis installed on your Debian machine, follow along with this guide. Unfortunately, the process of installing it is not as easy as `sudo apt-get install redis`, which you probably already knew since you’re reading this. The current version of Redis, at the time of me writing… Read more »

A few months ago, around the time of all that GoDaddy SOPA stuff, I finished transferring all of my domain names to my new registrar, Gandi. I had been sick of GoDaddy for a long time. When buying a domain with GoDaddy, you’re forced to go through a half dozen screens where they try to up-sell… Read more »

I’m a big fan of running Debian Linux on the server. To do a lot of administration it requires one to SSH into the machine. The default message displayed to the user contains a bunch of copyright information, which isn’t all that useful. Here’s an example of the default SSH MOTD on my server: $… Read more »

If you’re like me, you prefer to install Linux packages via the systems package manager. By doing so, whenever you run your update command, you’re going to get the most current copy of everything. Unfortunately, Debian doesn’t seem to have Node.js in their package repo by default: $ sudo apt-get install nodejs Reading package lists…… Read more »

Here’s an old script I came up with for delaying the mounting external drives (they were eSATA) to persistent locations on my Debian based server, regardless of the order in which the OS detects the drives. It uses the blkid identifiers of the drives, instead of the /dev drive locations (which can change each boot)…. Read more »

This is my adventure trying to get XBMC installed on my Debian server. Long story short it doesn’t end well. tlhunter@titan:~/xbmc$ git clone git://github.com/xbmc/xbmc.git tlhunter@titan:~/xbmc$ cd xbmc. tlhunter@titan:~/xbmc/xbmc$ ./bootstrap ./bootstrap: 5: ./bootstrap: autoreconf: not found tlhunter@titan:~/xbmc/xbmc$ sudo apt-get install dh-autoreconf tlhunter@titan:~/xbmc/xbmc$ ./bootstrap tlhunter@titan:~/xbmc/xbmc$ ./configure checking for main in -lGL… no configure: error: Could not find… Read more »

I was recently tasked with getting the pecl_http package installed on a server. I already hade PECL all setup (which can be its own nightmare), and I had cURL installed. But, there is a mystery package which needed to be installed first. tlhunter@amalthea:~ $ sudo pecl install pecl_http downloading pecl_http-1.7.4.tgz … Starting to download pecl_http-1.7.4.tgz… Read more »